Shetland Coastguard has flown an injured worker from the North Cormorant platform in the UK North Sea. According to Evening Express, a daily newspaper in Aberdeen, the 58 years old man was taken to the Lerwick hospital by helicopter last night. No further details into the nature and the gravity of t
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of emergency preparedness and radio and telecommunications systems at Draupner platforms in the North Sea. Gassco is the operator of the platforms while Statoil provides technical services. The Draupner S and Draupner E platforms c
Sevan Drilling, a Norway-based drilling contractor, had a disappointing third quarter when it comes to its rig fleet utilization. The company that owns three ultra-deepwater drilling rigs of cylindrical shape, reported its technical utilization of 64% versus 93% in the third quarter 2013. In a webca
Seadrill will refrain from ordering new offshore rigs in the near future due to the challenging market conditions for offshore drilling contractors. The company also announced it would put dividend distributions on ice. The company, one of the world’s largest offshore drilling contractors, which cur
Karoon Gas Australia has informed that Kangaroo-2 appraisal well, offshore Brazil, has encountered multiple oil bearing zones. The company said that as at 2000 hrs BRST on November 25, 2014 drilling had been completed at a total depth of 2,369 metres below rotary table (mRT) and a wireline logging p
Keppel AmFELS LLC, a US subsidiary of Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has delivered the jackup rig, Coatzacoalcos, to Mexico’s Central Panuco S.A. De C.V., a subsidiary of Mexico’s Perforadora Central S.V. De C.V.. According to Keppel, the rig was delivered on time, within bud
Deep Casing Tools has announced the signing of a frame agreement with Statoil Petroleum AS. The company says that the contract covers the supply of Deep Casing Tools’ revolutionary drillable casing and liner reamer technology, including its high-speed, drillable reaming system, the Turbocaser™ Expre
Paragon Offshore, the largest shareholder of Prospector Offshore Drilling since last week, has lodged a formal request for an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of Prospector Offshore Drilling S.A. to be convened. At the meeting, Paragon will seek to appoint new board of directors. To
Maersk Drilling has informed that Hess has exercised the four one-well options included in the current contract for the jack-up rig Maersk Resolute. Maersk Drilling says that each of the four additional wells has an estimated duration of around 90 days implying an extension of the current contract b
Offshore Energy Today has reported on Friday that an explosion occurred on a Fieldwood Energy-operated Echo platform located in West Delta 105 block in the Gulf of Mexico. The company has released an update saying that it was a result of a cleaning operation. The incident occurred when employees of
Benthic, a global geosciences company, has been awarded a contract by a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for a deepwater geotechnical investigation in the Golfinho field off the coast of Mozambique. Benthic’s PROD (Portable Remotely Operated Drill), operating from the MPSV Jaya Vigilant,
GDF Suez has signed a contract with Idemitsu for the acquisition of 10% share in the license PL 420, in the North Sea. PL 420 is situated between the Gjøa field and the Skarfjell discovery, and contains the discovery Titan. The exploration well Atlas in the license started November 4, with the semi-
Singapore-based Hoidi International’s production division in China, will build legs for a COSL jack-up rig. Hoidi’s Tianjin Hoidi Group Co. Ltd. will construct the legs for the Gusto MSC CJ50-X120-E designed rig. The rig, to be named HYSY944, will be built by China Merchat Heavy Industry for China O
A twin-hull behemoth, a giant, the world’s largest vessel, largest catamaran, biggest offshore vessel, the world’s largest crane ship. This is how it has been described. It is the ‘Pieter Schelte’, and it is now on its way to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, sailing from South Korea, where it was recentl
